ANOTHER GERMAN SENSATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 5

ANOTHER GERMAN SENSATION.

THE KAISER ON GERMANY’S ISOLATION. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received January 7, 8.5 a.m.:| Berlin, January 6.

A sensation has been caused in Berlin by German newspapers announcing that the Kaiser entertained his Generals to dinner on Sunday and read them (expressing his cordial approval) an article in the Deutsche Revue on war in the present day. The Kaiser attributed the article to Count Schlieffan, former Chief of the General Staff. The article discussed the military isolation and “hemming in’’ of Germany and Austria. It next emphasised the destructiveness of modern fire rendering speedy tactics essential for the nation’s existence.

Referring to the political aspect it mentioned that Germany’s commercial industrial progress made Britain her unforgiving enemy. Technical reasons were adduced to show that the danger of a joint attack on Germany and Austria was less real than might have been supposed owing to the fear of any assailant chat its remoter allies might arrive too late. Yet the existence of a combination permanently menaced and automatically affected German nerves. London, January 6. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says that the Kaiser’s approval of the article has not yet been officially denied but it is permissible to doubt whether it extended to the political speculations.